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National Police's special forces begin a security operation outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in preparation for the presidential election, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Salvadorans elect a new president on Sunday. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Outsider romps to victory in El Salvador presidential vote

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

Presidential frontrunner Nayib Bukele, of the Grand National Alliance for Unity or GANA, is prepped for an interview, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. The young entrepreneur has his sights set on combating corruption and promises to create an anti-corruption commission similar to its Central American neighbors. Salvadorans go to the polls this Sunday. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

AP Interview: El Salvador’s leading candidate targets graft

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

A neighborhood watch sign is seen Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, near the Gardnerville Ranchos, Nev., home of Connie Koontz, the first of two women in the community who were found dead in their homes. The killings of the two women and a couple north in Reno that police say were committed by a man in the U.S. illegally have put the community on edge. (AP Photo/Michelle L. Price)

The Latest: $500K bail for Salvadoran held in Nevada cases

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Fernando Cuevas, of the Scalabrinian Missionaries, celebrates Mass at a Catholic church in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, on the border with Mexico, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019. Scalabrinians were among the first to start ministering to migrants in the Americas, where little by little, a network of safe houses tied to the church sprang up in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, according to Bishop Raul Vera of Saltillo in northern Mexico, one of the first Mexicans to get involved in the cause. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Pope visit to CentAm highlights church ministry to migrants

By SONIA PEREZ D. and MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

A Honduran migrant listens to her mobile phone while waiting to enter Guatemala, at the border crossing in Agua Caliente, Guatemala, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. The latest caravan of Honduran migrants hoping to reach the U.S. has crossed peacefully into Guatemala, under the watchful eyes of about 200 Guatemalan police and soldiers. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

After crossing into Guatemala, migrants set sights on Mexico

By SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press

Migrants traveling in a group begin their journey toward the U.S. border as they walk along a highway in San Salvador, El Salvador, early Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. Migrants fleeing Central America's Northern Triangle region comprising Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala routinely cite poverty and rampant gang violence as their motivation for leaving. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Migrant caravan of 1,700 Hondurans head to Mexico border, set sights on U.S.

By Sonia Perez D. - Associated Press

In this March 6, 2015, file photo, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents enter an apartment complex looking for a specific undocumented immigrant convicted of a felony during an early morning operation in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File) **FILE**

Roxana Orellana Santos, illegal immigrant activist, detained by ICE in Maryland

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

"The reason why I took sanctuary is I love my children. I did not want to leave; I wanted to fight here," Rosa Gutierrez Lopez of El Salvador said during a December 17 welcoming ceremony at the Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church in Bethesda, Maryland. (Associated Press)

Rosa Gutierrez Lopez among church sanctuary migrants in growing movement

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 22, 2018, photo U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surround and detain a person during a raid in Richmond, Va. ICE's enforcement and removal operations, like the five-person field office team outside Richmond, hunt people in the U.S. illegally, some of whom have been here for decades, working and raising families. Carrying out President Donald Trump's hard-line immigration policies has exposed ICE to unprecedented public scrutiny and criticism, even though officers say they're doing largely the same job they did before the election, prioritizing criminals. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Scrutiny, criticism of ICE come with immigration enforcement

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

In this Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, photo, restraints lie on the tarmac as personal belongings of immigrants who entered the United States illegally are loaded onto a plane for a deportation flight to El Salvador by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Houston. An obscure division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates hundreds of flights each year to remove immigrants. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

ICE Air charter flights deport 100,000 immigrants a year

By Nomaan Merchant and Angeliki Kastanis - Associated Press

In this Nov. 16, 2018, photo, immigrants who entered the United States illegally wait to board a plane for a deportation flight to El Salvador by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Houston. An obscure division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates hundreds of flights each year to remove immigrants. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Deported immigrants get their last flight on ‘ICE Air’

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ANGELIKI KASTANIS - Associated Press

Central American migrants moving as a caravan toward the U.S. border, one carrying a Mexican flag, get ready to leave Benito Juarez Auditorium that sheltered them overnight in Guadalajara, Mexico, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. Many say they are fleeing rampant poverty, gang violence and political instability primarily in the Central American countries of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

American taxpayers spend $27 million to ease deportees’ lives in Central America: GAO

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Darwin Dariel Paraon eats sitting next to a group of tents set up in a shelter for members of the migrant cavan, in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. As Mexico wrestles with what to do with more than 5,000 Central American migrants camped out at a sports complex in the border city of Tijuana, President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's government signaled Tuesday that it would be willing to house the migrants on Mexican soil while they apply for asylum in the United States — a key demand of U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Migrant caravan mostly standard illegal immigrants, not asylum seekers

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

El Salvador navy seizes record 6.3 metric tons of cocaine

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Marvin Ochoa, center, of Honduras, waits in line for a meal behind his wife Diana Marylin Ochoa after they arrived with a Central America migrant caravan to Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. Members of the migrant caravan started to meet some local resistance as they continued to arrive by the hundreds in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where a group of residents clashed with migrants camped out by the U.S. border fence. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Migrant caravan, Tijuana residents clash at U.S. border fence

By Elliot Spagat and Maria Verza - Associated Press

China hosts El Salvador as nations cut ties with Taiwan

By YANAN WANG - Associated Press

Migrants travel on a cattle truck, as a thousands-strong caravan of Central American migrants slowly makes its way toward the U.S. border, between Pijijiapan and Arriaga, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Many migrants said they felt safer traveling and sleeping with several thousand strangers in unknown towns than hiring a smuggler or trying to make the trip alone. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Poverty, unemployment, violence drive Guatemalan emigration

By MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

Central American migrants making their way to the U.S. in a large caravan bathe using water from a fire hydrant at the main plaza in Tapachula, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. Thousands of Central American migrants hoping to reach the U.S. were deciding Monday whether to rest in this southern Mexico town or resume their arduous walk through Mexico as President Donald Trump rained more threats on their governments. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

The Latest: 1st migrants arrive in Huixtla after 8-hour walk

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Chart to accompany Rahn article of Oct 23, 2018.

Hope for Central America may be found in new technologies

By Richard W. Rahn

Central American migrants making their way to the U.S. in a large caravan cling to the trucks of drivers who offered them free rides, as they arrive to Tapachula, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018. Despite Mexican efforts to stop them at the Guatemala-Mexico border, about 5,000 Central American migrants resumed their advance toward the U.S. border Sunday in southern Mexico. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Over 7K-strong, migrant caravan pushes on; still far from US

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press